After having played a few games of vanilla DV, I've just installed the latest DVIP and have started a couple new games. A few questions:
1. Is it true that the rate of events you get is dependent on the number of traits you have (especially the events that will add a trait regardless of choice)? It seems like each time I start the game I get an event every couple of months (or weeks) until I have about half a dozen traits. Then the event rate slows down to what I'd seen in vanilla.
2. Is it possible that events are happening but not being reported? Starting as Count of Cornwall in 1066, in my first game, I suddenly got a claim on Penthievre, but there was no explanation anywhere (pop-up or log) as to why. In my second game, on Jan. 6, 1072, my liege William became the Papal controller; on Jan. 7, I was excommunicated. No warning, no pop-up, and as far as I can tell, no reason at all for the excommunication. I have a relation of +89 with him, 100% loyalty, no traits that should prompt this action, and have had no events with William to make him do this. The only thing I can possibly see is that I'm rivals with Hereford and he's friends with William. Besides these examples, in general, I'm noticing things just seem more arbitrary, without explanation.
3. Not exactly a question, but I agree with the poster a few pages up who commented that the BoPack events are unbalanced. They might be fine for kings, but events that add or subtract 100 gold/buildings/traits/etc. without even considering probabilities are excessive for small demesnes. I do like the events themselves, but the consequences are too big (and mandatory).
4. This might be because I was playing with Normal AI aggro before, and have dropped down to Coward/Weakling, but I've noticed that William mobilizes a lot of his troops and keeps them standing around for months. I've never seen leaders do that before.